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Definition of Phantasy world

1. Noun. Something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality).

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Literary usage of Phantasy world

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"That is the individual withdraws his interest from the external world [introverts] and constructs a phantasy world into which he tends to withdraw more and ..."

2. The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys by Fredrika Bremer (1843)
"... and she now took possession with redoubled force of the phantasy world, which once before, under the guise of the Wood-god, had carried away her ..."

3. The Psychoanalytic Method by Oskar Pfister (1917)
"He finds, however, the way back from this phantasy world to reality, in that, thanks to special talents, he molds his phantasies to new kinds of realities, ..."

4. Psychoanalysis and the Drama by Smith Ely Jelliffe, Louise Brink (1922)
"... in which the hero's defection from the paths of rectitude has been briefly stated for the audience, the real play opens upon this phantasy world. ..."

5. Problems of Mysticism and Its Symbolism by Herbert Silberer (1917)
"Introversion fulfills here clearly the aim of bringing to reality, ie, to psychological reality, something that is attainable only by phantasy (world of the ..."

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